How To Adjust Guitar Bridge

How To Adjust Guitar Bridge - Quick Tips

Hey Everyone, I am going to share my quick tips about guitar bridge adjustment for beginners whom I found struggling much time to fix.

So are you thinking how to adjust guitar bridge on your own in a simple way. Well, here we will discuss some quick tips to do so. This process of adjusting is also known as adjusting the action on the guitar. Adjusting the action is important for the guitar to sound good.

The action is the distance of the strings to the fingerboard. If the strings sit too high or low then there is a problem with your guitar. You will have to adjust the action. Moreover, if the strings sit too low then you may hear a buzzing sound and if they sit too high then you may find it very hard to fret.

Quick tips to adjust the guitar bridge:

You will have to lower or raise the part of the bridge where the strings actually sit and this bridge is also termed as saddle. It may take some time, so be patient and use the tips explained below.

Measure the guitar action:

Before you do anything measure the guitar action. Use a ruler to measure the distance between the 12th fret and the bottom of the first and sixth string. The new acoustic guitars for the first string are set to 2/32" and for the 6th string are set to 3/32". If the height of the string is higher than this then go to next step.

Detune your guitar:

saddle is fixed in the bridge slot with guitar strings quite robustly. So, getting the saddle off without loosening the strings will not be possible. So, take the string winder to detune your guitar until the strings are very loose. You don’t need to remove the strings from the tuners as it is a very hectic job to rewind them back on the tuners.

Exception: if you have a string-thru bridge, it will be required to remove the strings from the tuners. It will just take a little more time to adjust the bridge.

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